On Monday, December 20, 2010 8:54:14 PM UTC+1, kaveh_shahbazian wrote:
>
> I understand hosting on a VM has it's own (huge) advantages: GC, 
> libraries, proved practices and vast amount of research and community 
> effort already available; no doubt on that part. 
>
> It is just having a mature and well designed cross-platform natively 
> compiled language (other than C and C++) has it's own advantages (I do 
> not mean Clojure should go down that path; I was just asking). Some 
> high level languages come to mind like Haskell, OCaml, Gambit-C Scheme 
> (and for sure some others) but they lack in some areas and not fully 
> cross platform. 
>
> Clojure is a fantastic language (Although I have just scratched the 
> surface) and It would be "nice" to have it natively compiled. 
>

It could be written on top of Common Lisp. There are natively compiled, 
multithreaded, cross-platform implementations of it, and building on another 
Lisp should be much easier than on C/C++. Of course, since Clojure programs 
often rely on Java libraries to do some of their work, porting won't be a 
no-brainer.

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